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In-State Moving Before Veterans Day: Plan the Perfect Move Planning a move within California before Veterans Day? In-state Moving can feel overwhelming, but with the right approach, you can make it a seamless experience. Like Movers is here to help you prepare for a smooth transition. Let’s explore how planning early can simplify your in-state move, giving you peace of mind and a fresh start. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/dJS_KJ3n

A Glimpse Into The Past: Secret Santa and The Storms We Braved 🎅🎄🌩🌪 Last night, while clearing some old files, I stumbled upon something that brought a smile to my face – a Christmas poem from 2020, written by my Secret Santa. It took me back to a time when the world, and S.M.I.L.E., faced challenges that tested us all. The poem talks about keeping our services going during Covid-19, navigating stormy waters 🌊, and supporting one another as a crew 🚢. We worked through social distancing, temperature checks, and constant uncertainty to ensure our doors remained open for the young people who needed us most 🙌. Looking back, it reminds me of how much has changed – and how much has stayed the same. Our challenges may be different now, but the commitment and passion at S.M.I.L.E. remain unwavering 💪. We continue to push forward, innovate, and do whatever it takes to serve our community, just as we did during the toughest times. That poem reminded me of how proud I am of my team 🏆, the resilience they’ve shown, and the impact we’ve made together 💜. As we move toward the future, with new ideas 💡 and new challenges, I’m confident that the ‘good ship S.M.I.L.E.’ will keep sailing strong ⚓️. 'Here’s to all the captains and crews who keep their ships afloat, no matter the storms' ⛈️. #Throwback #Leadership #Resilience #SMILE #SecretSanta #MentalHealth

Moving Services Before Veterans Day: How to Plan Your Move Efficiently When the holiday season is fast approaching, many people look to move into new homes, especially before the rush of Veterans Day. The problem is that moving can become stressful with tight schedules and last-minute preparations. But don’t worry—by choosing Packman Moving, you can ensure that your move is smooth, efficient, and well-planned. This article will guide you through the best tips and services for moving before Veterans Day, so you can enjoy the holiday season stress-free. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/db6AH5J7

Yesterday, I found myself on Cavehill, fingers cold but purposeful, gathering sprigs of evergreen for what's become my ritual Christmas wreath making . The recent fierce storms that battered most of Belfast, Ireland and the UK had transformed the familiar trails, opening up entirely new views of the city below. Strange, how a changed landscape can mirror your own story. Standing there, surrounded by nature's recent renovations, I saw my teams journey through 2024 reflected in every fallen branch. Like the changes to my surrounds, our scope of work has continuously shifted, revealing new possibilities we hadn't seen before. Where storms reshape forests, change reshapes teams. Cavehill's altered paths have created unexpected clearings, spaces where new life will flourish. Similarly, our teams biggest pivots became our most powerful moments. We didn't just adapt; we fundamentally reimagined our approach. Our client conversations deepened, our solutions became more innovative. As I wove together this year's wreath using branches scattered by the storm, and some foraging from my garden, it struck me; resilience isn't about maintaining the status quo. It's about finding beauty in transformation. The wreath hanging on my door tells that story. Not perfect, not store-bought, but real. Like the team, it's made more interesting by embracing the changes that shaped it. Here's to the winds of change that guide us, and the courage to create something beautiful from continuous transformation and learning how to weather the storms.

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝘁 June 21, 2025, marks my 11th year as president & CEO of the National Glass Association (NGA). It is also the date I will retire after 35 years at NGA. By next Spring, the NGA Board of Directors will have selected my successor, who will work with the Board and our members to continue building NGA as a highly responsive and effective trade association representing the entire glass and glazing industry. The NGA is at its strongest in its 76-year history and executing daily on its purpose, vision, mission and strategic goals at the highest levels of energy and excellence. This has everything to do with the NGA staff who show a deep commitment to our mission, the industry we proudly serve and each other. This is the time of year for staff performance reviews. As you’d expect, I am doing mine with a longer lens, spurred by my peers, staff, friends and family asking what I’d want my legacy to be. I’ve already touched on one of my proudest accomplishments. Several of NGA’s top staff leaders started with me 30+ years ago, growing in responsibilities and authority. Others I hired over the last decade as NGA grew stronger. They in turn have hired, mentored and grown an excellent team of 46 people who live our staff values every day. We have overcome multiple challenges over the years, a show-stopping hurricane and a world-wide pandemic, to name two. The NGA and our team emerged stronger after each crisis, forged by common purpose, focus and deep care. Another personal legacy milestone is the NGA-GANA combination in 2018, resulting in a new, and more impactful trade association for the glass and glazing industry. For me, it was more than the culmination of two years of visioning, articulating a different future and persistent persuasion. Leading up to those two years were two decades of interacting with GANA members and staff. In mid-2016 when I learned their executive director stepped down, I pushed very hard to forge a single, unified glass and glazing trade association, ensuring that the unrivaled technical and advocacy work and the people producing it could expand their vital work on behalf of our industry. The clock is ticking as I write this; year-end reviews, 2025 budget prep and time passing quickly between now and June 21, 2025. If that last bit reads nostalgic, it is. My writing journal has two lists: career milestones and ideas for my “third act” pursuits. I haven’t decided on what those will be yet, but this I do know: By every measure, the National Glass Association is ready for whatever comes next. Pictured: Proud publisher 2011; No bull President 2023; Third Act 2025 & Beyond #NGA #Glass #Glazing #Fenestration #Management

Last week, I attended my third 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗢𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁. In 2022, I said this about the first Summit: “If your first thought is “I’m not a horse person”, this wasn’t a horse conference. This was a “come out from behind your walls to be the best human possible conference.” Horses live in the present moment; we humans rarely do. As I continue to dive deeper into the principles I wrote about in my book, 𝘿𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚, I’m experiencing more and more moments WHILE the moments are happening. There was no better place to practice than at the Summit. It was easy to get carried away with the hustle and bustle of it all, the new people I wanted to meet and the old friends I couldn’t wait to spend time with. One of my favorite parts is the breakfast scene, where we all converge to eat and have deep solve-all-worlds-problems conversations. One morning, I came down to breakfast and the hotel didn’t have the breakfast out yet – and no one was hanging around. My first thought started to fire up the itty bitty shitty committee, and the noise of it was unbearable. Yet I could see it for the useless chatter it was and let it go. I took a breath and asked myself what the right move was. In that moment, I could see that the possibilities were endless...and one move inexplicably drew me in. I rode the wave over to the diner I had discovered on the first day and laughed to myself, because this was exactly the opposite of what I had pictured my morning would be. The dining room was empty, so I sat down, ordered breakfast, and read the news on my phone. Soon, a group from the Summit came and joined me. We had the BEST conversations and I noticed that this was exactly my hope for the morning, only happening in a different place that I had expected. In this moment – and in so many more – I’m riding the wave 🌊 by letting go of the outcome and feeling into what the moment calls for. During the deeply uncertain days following Hurricane Helene, we had little choice. We never knew what the next moment would bring. In that way, I hope we never move on from the living-in-the-moment way of being. We will continue to pick up the pieces and wash off the mud and wait for the road to be rebuilt. But it’s not about getting it done. It’s about riding the waves as they come. #mindsetshift #gowiththeflow

REROUTING MY GPS FOR SUCCESS Seventeen months have passed since my layoff, a period that feels like a lifetime but is just the beginning of my career rebuilding (and the end of my COBRA). Like standing in the eye of a hurricane, I've watched the detritus of my former job fall around me. The storm has ended, and for the last few months, I’ve emerged, deciding what I want to salvage and what I'm leaving behind for good. Old Version of Success: Titles, paychecks, recognition. New Version of Success: Finding joy and purpose in what I do. So, I'm rerouting my GPS. New destination: HAPPINESS. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eyWBm4MS

At RISRR the cost of overseas medical expenses are taken care of because, returning you, your loved ones, team members and employees home is our main concern! #SafetyFirst #Security #RiskManagement #Leadership #CrisisManagement #TravelSafety #EmergencyPreparedness #GlobalSecurity #HealthAndSafety #Innovation

“Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world.” Joanna Macy In the spirit of author, teacher, Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist, Joanna Macy, we’ve settled into a working title for our PhD research/film about thriving communities amidst the context of eco-social crisis, which is,  What The Future? Patterns of community for a meta-modern world. In 2025 all can expect a website hub to host the project, including more explicit descriptions about the ‘why', ‘what', ‘how' and ‘who' of the film, plus regular video updates recording our progress. In the meantime, I’m reading everything I can in the non-dual realm, including Karen Barad's elucidations on Agential Realism, and David J. Temple's exposition of Cosmo-Erotic-Humanism. The idea here is to understand an alternative to post-enlightenment materialism, and seek out examples of it’s expression in community life at different places around the world. Last week my husband and collaborator was in Sri Lanka on a preliminary visit with the people at Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, one of the potential place-based, community locations we are interested in learning more about. Sarvodaya was founded in 1958 as a service-learning program that grew into a nonviolent, volunteer-driven, community-led social transformation initiative across thousands of villages in Sri Lanka. Today, it is a movement that has addressed over five disaster events and is now actively involved in a continuous project centred on disaster mitigation and volunteer group training. About the movement’s founder, Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Joanna Macy wrote, “In this voluble, diminutive dynamo I found a scholar-activist who took the social teachings of the Buddha seriously and dared to believe that they could inspire change in the modern world. He had banked his life on that conviction, drawing from ancient traditions to empower what he called “the poorest of the poor.” We are excited to learn more about Sarvodaya, and to share our discoveries with you. In the meantime, I’m plugging away with research preparations, plus getting ready to host the next Transition Leadership Lab https://lnkd.in/gwDbEaPw, which kicks off February 3rd, 2025. The program is starting to fill, so if it’s something you’ve been considering, now’s the time to schedule a 1-to-1 Discovery Session with me, which you can do here: https://lnkd.in/gGMSFPTu Until next time...#wisdom #transformation #regenerative #leadership #community

With holiday planning coming up soon, we're reflecting on some of our favorite community programs at Chief Carriers. These initiatives, deeply rooted in our company's values, have a special place in our hearts. One such program is Wreaths Across America, a cause that resonates with our commitment to honoring Veterans. As Mandee Lade, our Driver Recruiter, shares, "I love what Wreaths Across America stands for and the impact it has on our community." Another important tradition is our Adopt a Family program, where we come together to support families in need during the holidays. As Mandee explains, "It's incredibly rewarding for our employees, our company, and the community." We can't wait to get these programs going again soon! They embody our passion for giving back and making a positive difference, and they brighten our holidays every year. What's your favorite annual community event at Chief Carriers or in the Grand Island community? Let us know in the comments below. #CommunityEngagement #PassionForPeople #LeadLikeChief